Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE KENNEDY STREET
698-1/27/172 (South West side)
No.10

GV II

Insurance office (1905: West of Scotland Fire insurance). Late
C19, altered. Red sandstone to ground floor, red brick with
red sandstone dressings above. Eclectic Scottish Jacobean
style. Three-storey 3-bay facade with narrow centre and wide
outer gables; moulded segmental-headed doorway with gabled
canopy on brackets, large rectangular windows either side
(except left end which has short window over basement door,
all with raked sills and ornamented margins ornamented band
over 1st floor, 3-sided shafts to upper floors finished with
domed finials; mullion-and-transom windows at 1st floor (8, 4
and 8 lights, the centre bowed slightly), blind arcaded band
over; five 2-light mullioned windows at 2nd floor, all sashed;
small-panel decoration to gables.

Listing NGR: SJ8391398174

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496591

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)